BlockFactory:Vehicles

Vehicles get you across the steppe quickly and carry cargo in their trunk; the later ones fight for you. There are three: the Steam Buggy, the Armored Car and the Rune Tank. All three are items: you place them in the world, drive them, and pick them up again.

Overview

	Steam Buggy	Armored Car	Rune Tank
Epoch	2	3	4
Research	Automobilism	Armored Vehicles	Rune Tank
Energy source	Fuel in the trunk	Fuel in the trunk	Batteries in the trunk
Consumption	150 kW	300 kW	500 kW
Trunk	20 slots	40 slots	40 slots
Weapon	none	Machine gun: up to 5 shots per second, range 18 blocks	Rune cannon: 1 shot per second, range 24 blocks
Ammunition	–	Cartridges from the trunk	Rockets from the trunk (120 damage each)
Noise	20 per minute	30 per minute	40 per minute
Driver	visible	hidden inside	hidden inside

All three use the same driving controls and reach the same speed.

Recipes

All vehicles are crafted by hand or in a Fabricator. Each upgrade uses the previous vehicle.

Vehicle	Ingredients	Time
Steam Buggy	8 Engine Unit, 20 Iron Plate, 5 Steel Plate	2 s
Armored Car	1 Steam Buggy, 50 Steel Plate, 10 Advanced Circuit, 1 Assault Rifle	5 s
Rune Tank	1 Armored Car, 20 Rune Slate, 10 Electric Engine, 1 Rocket Launcher	5 s

Controls

Action	How
Place	Hold the vehicle in your hotbar and right-click a block. It faces the way you look.
Get in and drive	Use the vehicle. Steer with your normal movement keys. The camera is locked to third person while you drive.
Get out	Dismount as from a mount in Hytale. The camera returns to first person.
Open the trunk	Crouch and Use
Pick it up	Crouch and hit it

When you pick up a vehicle, it goes into your inventory together with everything in its trunk; what does not fit drops on the ground in front of you. You cannot pick it up while someone has its trunk open. In Creative mode, placing does not use up the item and picking up gives none back.

Vehicles belong to no team: any player can drive one, open its trunk or pick it up.

Fuel

Put fuel into the trunk. While you sit in the vehicle, it uses energy every second; when the stored energy runs low, it burns the next fuel item from the trunk. When nothing is left, you are dropped out with the message "The vehicle is out of fuel". Unused energy stays in the vehicle. In Creative mode, driving costs nothing.

The Steam Buggy and the Armored Car burn the same fuels as furnaces and drills. The Rune Tank runs only on Batteries (5 MJ each).

Fuel	Energy	Steam Buggy	Armored Car	Rune Tank
Wood	2 MJ	about 13 s	about 7 s	–
Tallow	1.5 MJ	10 s	5 s	–
Coal	4 MJ	about 27 s	about 13 s	–
Solid Fuel	12 MJ	80 s	40 s	–
Battery	5 MJ	–	–	10 s

Vehicle weapons

The Armored Car and the Rune Tank fire on their own while you sit in them. They aim like a tower: first the nearest attack group in range, otherwise the nearest War Golem, otherwise the nearest nest. Each shot uses one ammunition item from the trunk, taken in slot order. If there is no target in range, no ammunition is used.

Ammunition	Used by	Damage per shot
Cartridge	Armored Car	5
Steel Cartridge	Armored Car	8
Uranium Cartridge	Armored Car	16
Rocket	Rune Tank	120

With Uranium Cartridges, the Armored Car deals up to 80 damage per second; the shots of one second all hit the same target. See Weapons and Armor for how ammunition is made.

Damage

Vehicles cannot be damaged: not by creatures, stray shots, falling or water.

Noise

A vehicle makes noise every second you sit in it, like a running machine. A long drive past a nest can draw an attack group to where you are. See Enemies.

See also

• Weapons and Armor
• Enemies
• Railways
• Epochs